Hadith 215

‘Kifayat Al Aser’ – Abu Al Mufazzal Al Shaybani, from Ahmad Bin Matouq Bin Suwar, from Al Mugheira Bin Muhammad Bin Al Mahlab, from Abdul Ghaffar Bin Kaseer, from Ibrahim Bin Humeyd, from Abu Hashim, from Mujahid, fom Ibn Abbas who said, ‘A Jew called No’sal came to Rasool-Allah-saww and he said, ‘O Muhammad-saww! I want to ask you-saww about things which are sputtering in my chest for a while now. So, if you-saww were to answer me about these, I shall profess Islam upon your-saww hands’. He-saww said: ‘Ask, O Abu Amara’. He said, ‘O Muhammad-saww! Describe your-saww Lord-azwj to me’. He-saww said: ‘The Creator cannot be described except with what He-azwj has Described with Himself-azwj. And, how can one describe the Creator Who Frustrates the sensory perception from realising Him-azwj, and the imaginations from attaining Him-azwj, and the thoughts from limiting Him-azwj, and the sights from the encompassing with Him-azwj? He-azwj is more Majestic from what the describers are describing Him-azwj, being distant in His-azwj nearness, and near in His-azwj remoteness; being ‘how’ of the how-ness (Qualitative State), therefore it cannot be said to Him-azwj, ‘How’; and ‘where’ of the where-ness, so it cannot be said to Him-azwj, ‘where’. He-azwj is the Terminator of the how-ness and the where-ness. So, He-azwj is the Samad just as He-azwj Described Himself-azwj, and the describers are not reaching to His-azwj Attributes. Who does not beget and is not begotten, and there does not happen to be anyone a match for Him-azwj’. He said, ‘You-saww have spoken the truth, O Muhammad-saww! Inform me about your-saww words: ‘He-azwj is One, there being no resemblance for Him-azwj’. Isn’t Allah-azwj One and the human being is (also) one? His-azwj Oneness resembles the oneness of the human being. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj is One, and the meaning is one; and the human being is one, the meaning is dual – a body and a dimension, and a body and soul. So, rather, the resemblance is in the meaning not something else’. He said, ‘You-saww spoke the truth, O Muhammad-saww’’. [150]